My work integrates the whole human being. From somatic (SE, CST, Reiki) to thought (CBT, Narrative) to spirit (shamanic, Sufi), drawing all these parts together through Voice Dialogue, I believe the most effective, and dangerous, human beings are those who fiercely embrace their unique selves. There is no greater satisfaction for me then to see my clients venture bravely out into the world, enriching that world and feeling their own power.

Arvada Therapy Solutions, LLC provides a strength-based and collaborative approach while working with children(4-11yrs), adolescents, adults, and families. After working in hospital and agency settings, I began my private practice in 2011. I am trained in directive and non-directive play therapy as well as Trauma Focused CBT, CBT, DBT, and ACT. I also provide supervision and internship opportunities for Master's level clinicians and although not required in Colorado, I am working on becoming an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), which will be completed in 2017. The interns at my office provide counseling on a sliding scale based on income, to prevent finances from being a barrier to receiving care.

I have also just launched my business consulting and business workshops designed to help clinicians start and build a private practice.

I received my masters degree at Naropa University the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology. My passion for therapeutic work has developed over the last 10 years working with adolescents and adults in wilderness, office, and community settings. I have found that deep level healing occurs in mindful relationship with others, seeing and experiencing this has laid the foundation for my practice. I have trainings in Virginia Satir's family systems model, Douglas Brady's Psychology of Symptoms technique and in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I work from a body-based perspective with attachment, trauma, sexuality issues, addictions, physical pain and illness, and gender issues, to name a few.

A somatic psychotherapist and trainer of actor-singers in New York City since 1982, I still work exclusively with singer's, actors, and those who use their voice professionally in their work. Learning to express yourself authentically, in your God given voice in front of other humans is not always easy- but well worth the time spent. In fact, most people feel that dying would be easier that having to expose oneself in front of an audience.

Unresolved trauma is the source of our panic states that prevent us from being in the state of calm where true emotion is experienced. Our survival muscles, also called the muscles of initiation or emotional muscles, are also the muscles that produce speech and singing. When we are in a state of fight/flight/freeze, we lose access to relaxed elasticity and go into either a hyper or hypo mode.